You Are What You Eat

When we eat factory-farmed animals we live,

literally, on tortured flesh.

Increasingly, that tortured flesh

is becoming our own.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who

is raised to be eaten, and who never has

a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy.

It's like... you're just eating misery.

Alice Walker

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand...

that we should cease to kill our fellow

creatures for the satisfaction

of our bodily wants.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jo Frederiks

I refuse to eat animals because

I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings

and by the death of other creatures.

I refuse to do so, because I suffered

so painfully myself that I can feel

the pains of others by recalling

my own sufferings.

Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz

The earth affords a lavish supply of richess

of innocent foods, and offers you banquets

that involve no bloodshed or slaughter.

Pythagoras

Worthless people live to eat and drink;

people of worth eat and drink to live.

Socrates

Veganism is not a diet.

It is a rejection of violence.

Marlana Mazmanian McCliman

Veganism has given me a higher level of

awareness and spirituality, primary because

the energy associated with eating has shifted...

by putting things into your body that violate

its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate

that violence onto someone else.

Dexter Scott King

You become what you think.

You are what you eat.

Barbara Cartland

The basis of all animal rights should be

the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we

would wish them to treat us, were any

other species in our dominant position.

Christine Stevens

Jo Frederiks

To feed on death is to become food for death.

To live by other's pain is to become a prey

for pain. So has decreed the omni-will.

Know that and choose your course.

Mikhail Naimy

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thinking person must oppose all

cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted

in tradition and surrounded by a halo.

When we have a choice, we must avoid

bringing torment and injury

into the life of another.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no religion without love, and people may

talk as much as they like about their religion,

but if it does not teach them to be kind

to man and animals, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell

The eating of animals extinguishes

the seed of great compassion.

Buddha

Pick Me Vegans & Ex Vegans

People's opinions are mainly designed to make

them feel comfortable; truth, for most people,

is a secondary consideration.

Bertrand Russell

We are haunted by the horror of what we do

to animals, but we are equally haunted by

the knowledge of how unhaunted others are.

J.M. Coetzee

When people meet vegans, they become aware

in that moment that they eat animals.

They become uncomfortable and place

the feeling on the vegan. Their own sense

of mercy and compassion arises and

makes them uneasy. Mercy asks of you

to abstain from this cruelty.

Gary Smith

The hottest places in hell are reserved for

those who, in times of great moral crisis,

maintain their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

When you see a good man, try to emulate

his example, and when you see a bad man,

search yourself for his faults.

Confucius

Cowards can never be moral.

Mahatma Gandhi

All rivers and some people are crooked because

they follow the path of least resistence.

Napoleon Hill

If you don't stick to your values when

they're being tested, they're not values:

they're hobbies.

Jon Stewart

To be yourself in a world that is constantly

trying to make you something else is

the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We only become what we are by the radical

and deep-seated refusal of that which

others have made of us.

Jean Paul Sartre

The individual has always had to struggle

to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often,

and sometimes frightened. But no price

is too high to pay for the privilege

of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling